If you have been attending our recent fly tying sessions for beginners, hopefully you have enjoyed learning more of the basics of creating artificial fly patterns that simulate natural fish…
Category: Beginner’s Fly Tying
Beginner Fly Tying: Soft Hackle Wet Flies
Our Beginner Fly Tying session this month will continue our theme for 2025: learning to tie a diversity of flies based on one pattern simply by substituting one or two…
Beginner Fly Tying: Cold Weather Flies
As noted in the January issue of Streamlines, beginner fly tying sessions this year will focus on the use of alternative materials in tying similar, or variant, fly patterns. People who…
Beginner Fly Tying: Fundamentals of Tying Artificial flies
Over the past ten plus years the focus of our PVFF Beginner’s Fly Tying class has been to learn the basic procedural steps in constructing a specific fly pattern. Our…
Combined Beginner and Advanced Fly Tying: Classic Poppers
Because of the busy holiday season, our December fly tying event will be a combined class. On December 18th at 7 p.m., we will have a class for all levels…
Beginner Fly Tying: Hogan’s Winter Leech
In selecting the fly pattern for our November session, I chose Hogan’s Winter Leech. This pattern will further enhance the tying skills of our Beginner’s class as well as to…
Beginner Fly Tying: Thin Mint Bugger
In selecting a new fly pattern for our October Beginner Fly Tying session, I chose the “Thin Mint Bugger.” This pattern will help us learn new tying skills and provide…
Beginner Fly Tying: October Caddis
At our September beginner fly tying class we will be tying an October Caddis. In his book “Caddisflies,” author Gary LaFontaine described the hatch of the October caddis as one…
Beginner’s Fly Tying: Foam Beetle
Late summer is the time of the year when terrestrial insects (beetles, hoppers, ants, crickets, etc.) are prevalent virtually anywhere we might be fishing on freshwater streams, rivers, lakes, or…
Beginner’s Fly Tying: Yellow Palmer Dry Fly
Our next PVFF Beginner’s Fly Tying session will be held July 16th, starting at 7:00pm at Trinity United Methodist Church. The fly pattern chosen for that evening is the Yellow…
Beginner’s Fly Tying: The Gurgler
Our next Beginner Fly Tying session will be held on Tuesday, June 18. The fly pattern selected for our class that evening will be a version of the Gurgler. This…
Beginner’s Fly Tying: Cone-head Bunny Leech
The fly pattern selected for our May beginner’s class will be the Bunny Leech, one of my favorite “streamer” patterns for pursuing larger trout and smallmouth bass. Now that the…
Beginner’s Fly Tying: CDC Caddis
The pattern chosen for our PVFF Beginner’s Fly Tying session on April 16 is the CDC Caddis. Perhaps you do not know what the acronym CDC represents? CDC is the…
Beginner’s Fly Tying: Bead Head Pheasant Tail Nymph
Our next Beginners Fly Tying session will be held at 7:00 PM on March 19th. The pattern chosen for the class to tie that evening is the Bead Head PT…
Beginner’s Fly Tying: Griffith’s Gnat and Zebra Midge
Just because its winter and some of the warmer-water species (e.g. smallmouth and largemouth bass) are not as active, that’s no reason not to go fly fishing. There are two…